It would be foolish to develop and release an untethered exploit for a beta firmware so Apple could patch it before the public release. Additionally there is a new iPhone coming out next month so it would be doubly foolish in case the exploit might work on the new device.

It would be foolish to develop and release an untethered exploit for a beta firmware so Apple could patch it before the public release. Additionally there is a new iPhone coming out next month so it would be doubly foolish in case the exploit might work on the new device.

So why did Comex release JailbreakMe 3.0 before the official iOS 5 release?

Originally Posted by Poseidon79

It would be foolish to develop and release an untethered exploit for a beta firmware so Apple could patch it before the public release. Additionally there is a new iPhone coming out next month so it would be doubly foolish in case the exploit might work on the new device.

So why did Comex release JailbreakMe 3.0 before the official iOS 5 release?

Because someone ELSE leaked the JBM exploit first, and started distributing the unreleased JBM code, months before Comex was ready. He released it when he did in the hopes that the official JBM 3 would get out the door and people would be able to use it before Apple patched and closed it.

After the premature code release (out of his control)- 4.3.4 was just a matter of time.